Good afternoon, Penguins fans. It's a post-tryptophan matinee in beautiful 70-degree sunshine in Tampa (I know, 'shut up, you stinkin' Floridian). In a game I should be attending, the Penguins take on the Lightning in the first of a back-to-back in the Sunshine State.

We won't be seeing this guy.

This guy has moved on to a bigger enemy.

But this little runt is still there.

Rules of the state of GDT are in effect as well as the 3 knockdown rule and fighters cannot be saved by the bell. Cheer hard, bring whatever that juju stuff is, and don't feed the trolls...whoever they may be.

With what everyone's been saying about how DB supposedly 'doesn't like' Despres (by keeping him in the minors), maybe Bortuzzo is further down the 'like' meter. Guy's a solid defenseman and doesn't get caught running around. More than what we can say about the high-priced long-haired one.

Not sure what the deal is with Bortuzzo not playing. He was in the top 6 at the start of the year with Letang out. Now Martin and Scuderi are out and he's not in the top 6? Odd. He played well with Maatta. With both top two pairings having a guy injured it would seem to make sense to put the Maatta/Bortuzzo pairing together since they played well. Instead we play with 3 mix/match pairings.